My research and writing on literary and artistic awe.
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A starting point: Virginia Woolf’s approach to nature
To begin my research into literary awe, I considered the approach taken by Virginia Woolf in parodying the traditional Romantic sublime in her 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography. In doing so, Woolf begins to establish what Kari Elise Lokke called the author’s “comic” or “collective” sublime in her 1992 paper “‘Orlando’ and Incandescence: Virginia Woolf’s…
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